The UN mission issued a statement following a vigil in front of its headquarters in Khartoum rejecting “foreign interventions” in the country.
Stating that its presence in Sudan came at the request of the authorities and authorized by the UN Security Council
This came in a press release of the UN mission after a vigil in front of its headquarters in Khartoum in rejection of what the protesters described as “foreign interference in the affairs of the country,” the Turkish News Agency reported
“A group of demonstrators in front of UNITAMS headquarters demanding the expulsion of the mission, we defend the freedom of assembly and expression and offered to receive a delegation at our headquarters, but they refused,” the statement said.
“UNITAMS is here at Sudan’s request and with a clear mandate from the UN Security Council.”
Earlier Wednesday, groups of Sudanese took part in vigils in front of foreign embassies and the headquarters of the UNITAMS mission in Khartoum, rejecting “foreign interference” in the country’s affairs.
The protesters, who came out in response to a call from the Sudanese Initiative for National Sovereignty and the National Movement Forces Alliance, new entities formed last year and recently, carried banners with slogans such as “Respect for national sovereignty”, “National decision or departure”, and “Because we are a sovereign state, we reject your interference in our internal affairs”.
On January 8, the UN Secretary-General’s representative announced in a statement that “preliminary” consultations had been launched for a comprehensive political process between the Sudanese parties, with the aim of reaching an agreement to get the country out of its current crisis.
On December 27, 2021, political alliances, parties and civil society organizations launched an alliance called the National Movement Forces to reject foreign interference in Sudan’s affairs.
The Sudanese for National Sovereignty initiative was founded by community and political figures in the country in January to demand an end to foreign interference in Sudan’s decision, against the backdrop of UN, international and regional initiatives to resolve the crisis.
The alliance and the initiative urge national consensus and resolve the political crisis in the country by managing a dialogue between all components of the Sudanese people, including political parties and community components, without exception.
Split amid freedom and change
Meanwhile, sudan’s Civil Forces Rally announced yesterday its separation from the forces of the former ruling coalition, the Declaration of Freedom and Change, with all its structures.
This was according to a statement of the gathering (comprising civil entities and organizations)
“Based on an assessment of the performance of the civil gathering, differing positions with the forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change, and consistent with the role the assembly would like to play, it concluded that freedom and change were abandoned,” the statement said.
“We are working with all our energy with the various resistance forces to bring down the coup, and this task requires greater independence and freedom of movement from our independent position,” the group said in a statement.
“The group had been alerted to the mistakes that had occurred during the past period within the forces of the Declaration of Freedom, including the emergence of internal blocs (which it did not clarify) to control its work, which led to many times the participation of other forces in the declaration of war and change,” the statement said.
He noted that the group “did not emerge from freedom and change during its period of participation in power, despite mistakes, for fear of lying down to the constitutional situation in the country”.
The statement said the position of the Civil Forces Rally “came to allow for the formation of a new revolutionary on well-established foundations”.
The statement sent a message to the revolutionary components of the Forces of Freedom and Change: “We will inevitably meet in joint action within the broad national project to overthrow the coup and establish civil rule.”
The forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change are political components formed from the alliances of the Sudan Appeal, the National Consensus, the Federal Rally and the National Rally.
Freedom and change were established in January 2019 during protests against President Omar al-Bashir and until their removal in April 2019.
In August 2019, the (dissolved) military council and the forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change (ruling coalition), the Constitutional Declaration and the Political Declaration, signed the documents on the structures and power-sharing of the transitional period.
Sudan has been witnessing protests since October 25, rejecting the coup d’état of the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the decisions taken by the most prominent of which was the imposition of a state of emergency and the dissolution of the sovereignty councils and transitional ministers,
